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Manly Dam Project, Manly Art Gallery (NSW) Review

ArtsHub
16 January 2020
Gina Fairley

Left: Eight artists join eight engineers in a collaboration that examines 60 years of the Manly Dam, garnering lessons in coastal erosion, wetland management, biodiversity, climate change and social history.

With eight engineers, eight artists, and around eight months working together, the Manly Dam Project opened at Manly Art Gallery & Museum (MAG&M) in December.

Arts and science collaborations are not new; indeed, we have become quite sophisticated in how artists and scientists have shared conversations today. It’s less about taking from each other, and rather about a way to speak in tandem for a shared outcome.

Ruth Ju-Shih Li for Liminal Magazine

Liminal Magazine
27 April 2020
Matt Chun

Left: Interview #134 - Ruth Li

Ruth Ju-Shih Li is a ceramic artist currently working between Australia, China and Taiwan. She explores different ways of narrating both traditional and multicultural concepts of beauty, transcendence and the sublime.

Li draws from her diverse philosophical and cultural heritage, and from the language of dreams, myths and utopias. Li has exhibited in Sydney, Taiwan, China, Korea, and Thailand.

Miriam Innes in Sydney Morning Herald

Sydney Morning Herald
25 April 2020
Nicole Elphick

Left: Best of the week: What to see, hear and do in Sydney, April 26-May 1

Wednesday, April 29

ART Irish artist Miriam Innes' exhibition Unequivocally New York (until May 16) is open from today by appointment or available to view online. The show captures the stunning architecture and indomitable spirit of the famous city in a series of charcoal drawings. 10am-5pm, May Space, 409b George Street, Waterloo, free, mayspace.com.au

Graziela Guardino - Finite infinity

Art Almanac
March 2020

'Finite Infinity' is an exhibition of mixed media works by Graziela Guardino, which the artist has created by building, deconstructing, cutting and painting, pulling threads and sewing using materials including linen, wood, brass, thread and paint.

The series explores the dichotomies of life; absence and presence, darkness and light, and fragility and resilience and 'takes inspiration from poems that express opposing notions in line with my exploration of the binary forces that life presents,' says Guardino.

Ruth Li - in group exhibition at Xinying Cultural Centre, Taiwan

"... The Municipal Culture Bureau Xinying Cultural Center welcomes the coming of the new year, and launches a special exhibition of "2020 Lidao Hunchun", which invites artists from home and abroad to exhibit from January 10 to March 1, using a very diverse medium to provide everyone I can have a very special "Spring Festival" experience this year, and re-establish a friendly relationship with nature and culture. We invite everyone to come to Xinying Cultural Center during the New Year and welcome the new year together."

Left: 'The best choice to relieve the pressure after the election, 2020 Lidao Hunchun New Year Special Exhibition'

"... Australian artist Li Ju-Shih (Ruth Ju-Shih Li) said that 6 years ago, her father suffered from cancer, which made her think about life and death and the concept of time. Her daily life is used for meditation, and her work comes from the Eden scene."

Loribelle Spirovski - Interview with Wallpaper

Wallpaper*
10 December 2019
Charlotte Jansen

Left: Loribelle Spirovski explores the fine line between abstraction and photorealism

Love and death are two of art history’s oldest themes – but as 20-something artist Loribelle Spirovski proves, there is still plenty to say. Anxiety, depression, and mortality all surface in Spirovski’s portraits, on show until 11 December at London gallery House of Fine Art, that draw on surrealism and photorealism.